Lose weight fast with a Spa holiday from SpaDreams! Dining elsewhere? Or at home? Give vegetables and grains (including rice or pasta) entree status. Consider meat a flavoring rather than the main attraction. To safeguard your intentions, buy meat in quarter to half-pound packages or ask the butcher to divvy up a larger package for you. As a general rule, that amount should feed two to three people, according to traditional Chinese dietary principles. Along with the meat, have a baked potato and spinach, for example, or a tossed salad and asparagus. Once a week, it's a good idea to go all out and have a totally vegetarian meal, such as vegetable lasagna or baked white or sweet potatoes with vegetarian toppings.
Barbara Rolls's book The Volumetrics Eating Plan offers another approach to calorie control if you enjoy eating large portions. She advocates eating more foods that have low energy density, or few calories per ounce. These tend to be foods that have a high water content, such as fruits, vegetables, nonfat or low-fat dairy products, broth-based soups, grains, beans, and legumes. The benefit to eating more of these foods is that larger portions will fill you up without providing a lot of calories.
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